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Reading Glasses

Ep 43 - Bookish Internet, Panda Aunts and Jonny Sun!

Reading Glasses

Maximum Fun

Book, Education, Book Tech, Leisure, Reading, Hobbies, Books, Author, Advice, Library, How To, Writer, Audiobook, Arts

4.92.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Brea and Mallory talk about the wonder of the bookish Internet and interview author/illustrator Jonny Sun! Use the hashtag #ReadingGlassesPodcast to participate in online discussion! Email us at readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com!   MaxFun Drive - http://maximumfun.org/donate Reading Glasses Tote Bags Links - Reading Glasses Transcriptions on Gretta   Reading Glasses Facebook Group   Reading Glasses Goodreads Group Apex Magazine Page Advice Article   Amazon Wish List   BookRiot The Rumpus Literary Hub  Electric Literature  BuzzFeed Books WattPad A Bookish Type Smart Bitches Trashy Books Epic Reads Publisher’s Weekly   Jonny Sun Jonny's Twitter Get Jonny's book here or here.    Clint Smith on Twitter Spritz    Books Mentioned - All Summer Long by Hope Larson The Clasp by Sloane Crosley 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time To Write by Sarah Ruhl Hot Dog Taste Test by Lisa Hanawalt   Twitter and Tear Gas by Zeynep Tufekci You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack by Tom Gauld

Transcript

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0:00.0

You're listening to reading glasses, a show about book culture and literary life designed

0:07.5

to help you read better.

0:08.8

I'm writer, filmmaker, and book devour, Mallory O'Mera.

0:11.3

And I'm Bray Grant, actress filmmaker, and e-reader.

0:13.5

This episode, we're talking about the bookish internet and interviewing author and illustrator

0:18.0

Johnny Sun. But first... What are you reading, Bria? I wrote this book to show you.

0:22.4

It is called All Summer summer long it is a graphic

0:26.1

novel comic book I'm illustrated and written by Hope Larson cool New York Times

0:31.8

best-selling author,

0:33.0

Larson.

0:34.0

She used to live in Los Angeles.

0:35.0

She doesn't anymore, but she is a friend of mine.

0:37.3

And she sent this my way.

0:38.7

This is a book for ages 10 to 12.

0:42.3

It's like a very tween sort of book and it's about the summer in

0:46.0

between it's a very tween it's about the summer in between all the eens and out like

0:50.8

kind of like the summer where you're sort of getting a little bit older and it centers around this girl named Bina and she is really into music and her best friend is a boy and he goes off to soccer camp and leaves her alone for the summer and he doesn't want to do any of

1:02.8

their like childish stuff anymore and so she's sort of like learning like you know

1:08.4

getting a little bit older but also still like continuing to be herself it's

1:11.4

really cute and anybody I would

1:13.7

suggest it says the age group is 10 to 12 on the back because I was trying to figure

1:18.6

out how young you could give this to kids for but I even think a little younger

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